Boycott the Volunteer State?!
Big Coal is urging a boycott of travel to Tennessee because Sen. Lamar Alexander supports a federal ban on mountain-top removal mining, a type of mining where the tops of mountains are blown apart and the dirt dumped into rivers and valleys in order to get to the coal underground.) That means…it’s time to visit Tennessee! Check out our Tennessee Rocks group on Climate Crossroads and see “Ten Reasons to Visit the Great State of Tennessee.” 2. “Coal Country,” the movie the coal industry doesn’t want you to see. It explores whether mining and processing coal is essential to providing good jobs and shows how it is destroying the land, water and air in many communities. There was a dust-up leading up to its premiere in West Virginia where pro-coal folks were promising to picket and interrupt the event. The theater venue had to be changed, but the premiere still happened, despite some yelling. 3. Coal destroys people to power homes. Meet the people whose lives are destroyed by mountain and
